Originally Posted by sueisallaboutquilts
I have mixed feelings about painting old machines even though I think they are cute!
Sometimes on the common machines a repaint will make it worth a lot more than it would be if it were left original. Take the FW's, you cant touch a repaint for under $600 hardly and the 66's that I redo I get anywhere between $250 to $375 for them and cant keep enough on hand to keep the quilt shops and the customers happy.
But on the rare machines I dont care if there is just a speck of decal left, just preserve what is there and be the custodian of the machine. There is a fine line between destroying history and enhancing it.
Billy